Attitude & Beliefs of Physiotherapists towards Low Back Pain: A Review of Literature

We all know that Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the most common reason for the visit of patients to a Physiotherapist and treating LBP accounts for almost half of their workload as a clinician. It's a well-known fact that attitude and beliefs of any clinicians towards the patient's pain plays a vital role in deciding its management. A very less is known about Physiotherapist's attitude & belief towards LBP and also if their attitude and beliefs influence their management approach. Articles included relevant literature identified through searches of published studies in 3 electronic databases namely PubMed, PEDro and CINAHL using keywords as “attitude, beliefs, low back pain & physiotherapy”. Finally, 28 articles were selected to review the attitude & beliefs of Physiotherapists towards treating Low Back Pain. After reviewing it was observed that, Attitudes & beliefs about its course and management has an important role as they have an impact on the extent and severity of distress and disability. In order to frame provisions of low back pain management for future, it will be good to study more about the differences and similarities in attitudes to the management of LBP between physiotherapists working in different settings & with different conceptual frameworks. The study of Indian physiotherapist's cognitions, therefore, warrants further aention.